heron55's Blog

A pediatrician has offered this advice on removing a tick. Gross subject, but welcome to the lowcountry.

Get a cotton swab and dip it in liquid soap (no brand names suggested), then apply the soap to the tick's body. In about 15 -20 seconds, the tick will remove itself and you can use the soapy swab to pick it up for disposal. The pediatrician also uses that method on her pets. Better than a pair of tweezers which many times will leave the tick head embedded.

A friend was doing some bushhogging on an empty lot on Lady's Island. He happened to look down and saw a white object that looked out of place. He picked it up and it was a VERY large egg. He later took it to a vet and found that it was an ostrich egg about a week old. Now that is the mystery because no one has ostriches that anyone knows about. They don't fly, so how did that egg get into the middle of an overgrown lot? So far, no one has an answer.

According to this story in Reuters, a cockroach eating contest in Toronto is being protested by PETA. "Insects do not deserve to be eaten alive especially for a gratuitous marketing gimmick," PETA spokeswoman Jackie Vergerio told Reuters. Not sure how birds and fish of the world will respond to this protest. Maybe Bluffton could sponsor it as a roach management program. Maybe a little barbecue sauce would encourage more contestants.

Years ago, a minister related a true story. He was in a small church in NC and was asked by a funeral home to conduct a funeral service. It was for a man that had no known family and he would be buried about a 100 miles away. He said yes and rode with the funeral director in the hearse.

They arrived at the grave site in the midst of a heavy snow. A few friends of the deceased were under the tent and he started the service. Suddenly, the tent fell in from the snow on top.

My brother cracked the windshield on his car and turned in a claim. In the explanations box, he wrote, " I was driving along and hit a mosquito which cracked the windshield." The adjuster read the report, then said, "Wow, that must have been a big mosquito!". He had to explain that he hit the mosquito with his fist to kill it. His fist cracked the windshield. The adjuster, still being on the slow side, said, "Well it still must have been a monster mosquito for you to fight with it." His claim was approved.

Hey! I am brilliant! Just figured how to do paragraphs! At the bottom of the box underneath add image, is "disable rich text". Click on that and it will change to "enable rich text.", which also allows paragraphs and the format we are used to.

Some cities in europe are going back to ancient times when horses and chariots rode around with no traffic signs or stop signs. They expect that the unregulated situation will cause drivers to be more careful.